Indonesian golok ? Information wanted

Maurice · 28th September 2009, 11:18 PM

Welcome to the forum klewang!

I looked in the book of van Zonneveld. There you can find a description of the "chunderik" or "chundrik":

Chunderik:
"The name given to weapons of widely differing forms. For instance: a long sabre, a klewang or a small dagger the blade and hilt of which are forged from one piece and thus related to the so-called keris majapahit. The "chunderik" may sometimes serve as the point of a spear."

I wouldn't call your sword a "golok" either. Although all my indonesian friends call everything a "golok", whenever you can say in dutch "kapmes".
I would just call it some kind of little Javanese sword.
But I think yours is no piece used as working tool for "een paar boompjes om te hakken"

, but used as some kind of status symbol.

vriendelijke groet,
Maurice

28th September 2009, 11:18 PM	#3
Maurice Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,453	Welcome to the forum klewang! I looked in the book of van Zonneveld. There you can find a description of the "chunderik" or "chundrik": Chunderik: "The name given to weapons of widely differing forms. For instance: a long sabre, a klewang or a small dagger the blade and hilt of which are forged from one piece and thus related to the so-called keris majapahit. The "chunderik" may sometimes serve as the point of a spear." I wouldn't call your sword a "golok" either. Although all my indonesian friends call everything a "golok", whenever you can say in dutch "kapmes". I would just call it some kind of little Javanese sword. But I think yours is no piece used as working tool for "een paar boompjes om te hakken" , but used as some kind of status symbol. vriendelijke groet, Maurice